If you read the rules and follow the exact recommendations how to store and heat expressed breast milk, you do not have to worry about modern mom, that the baby will not get healthy and healthy food in her absence.
How to store and warm the expressed breast milk?
It is well known that breast milk under certain conditions has a sufficiently long shelf life. Depending on the temperature regime, this product can retain its properties and not spoil up to 8 days. Pre-freezing of milk increases the shelf life to six months.
If the mother plans to leave the baby for a short while and skips only one feeding, in this case the expressed portion of milk is not cooled and not heated. If the time of absence is longer, then the question arises whether it is possible to warm up breast milk.
Unequivocally the answer is positive, but it is worth remembering how to properly warm up the expressed expressed breast milk so that it does not lose its properties.
- First, before warming up breast milk, it must be thawed. To do this, it is better to rearrange the container with the contents from the freezer to the refrigerator until it melts.
- After the expressed breast milk has become liquid, it can be heated in a water bath, under a stream of warm water, in a special device - a bottle warmer . It is important to ensure that the water temperature does not exceed 40 degrees, and the heated milk is within the range of 36-37.
- In no case should boiled expressing breast milk, heated in a microwave oven, and also re-freeze or warm up, since such actions will not only lead to the loss of all useful components, but are also likely to cause poisoning.
Unfrozen milk is heated in the same way, only without preliminary defrosting.